Charlatan Audio Book CDs Unabridged

Charlatan Audio Book

Charlatan
Author: Pope Brock
Reader: Johnny Heller

In the Roaring Twenties, this outrageous quack made a fortune by convincing impotent American men that goat testes would solve their problem. It took 15 years for justice to catch up with him, but meanwhile this millionaire left a trail ofdistraught – and many dead – patients. Hear about the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time. "Heller's twangy voice resonates with the expansive openness of the Midwestern environs."—Audiofile » Read More

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Publish Date: 02/15/2008
ISBN: 9781400106073

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Synopsis:

Pope Brock illuminates a lively, wild, and scabrous subplot of American history in CHARLATAN, a blow-by-blow description of the public battle between John R. Brinkley, a famous huckster who made millions selling phony medical treatments over the radio in the 1910s and '20s, and Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, who routinely debunked Brinkley's cure-alls. After having his Kansas medical license revoked, Brinkley ran for governor of Kansas twice, nearly winning, and eventually sued Fishbein for libel in a dramatic legal case. The characters are larger-than-life, the treatments are frequently laughable, but the issues at stake--medical ethics, and the corrupt alliance between doctors and salesmen--are as much an issue today as they were in the time of snake oil.

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